The new edition of Nuncius has just been published, containing an article by Thijs Hagendijk on ‘Learning a Craft from Books – Historical Re-enactment of Functional Reading in Gold- and Silversmithing’.  The early modern period witnessed a great increase in the production and dissemination of artisanal handbooks, manuals and recipes. A central question is what role these texts…

On June 14, curator, writer and historian Glenn Adamson (Senior Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art) gave a presentation at the Technical Art History Colloquium about ‘Minding Making: Hands On Learning in the American University’. The video of the lecture is now online:  

Jenny Boulboullé will present the co-authored Poster ‘The ARTECHNE Database: An Online Tool for Art Technological Source Research. Case study: Materials in the Mayerne Manuscript’ (Jenny Boulboullé, Marieke Hendriksen, Martijn van der Klis, Alex Hebing, Jurjen Munk, Roland Blokland) at the  Trading Paintings and Painters’ Materials 1550-1800 CATS Conference in Copenhagen, 21-22 June 2018. This poster…

at the LEARNING/TEACHING MATERIALS: A SKILLSHARE WORKSHOP In the workshop, Sven Dupré, Jenny Boulboullé and Thijs Hagendijk will be exploring imaginative ethnography as a way to unpack the silent dimensions that constitute writing on historical practices of making, often taking the format of recipes. Departing from historical art technological recipes, the participants are asked to read…

New blogs online by Thijs Hagendijk (‘Vicissitudes in Soldering: Reading and Working with a Historical Gold- and Silversmithing Manual’), Marieke Hendriksen: ‘The Devil is in the Details: Turpentine Varnish’, and Jenny Boulboullé (‘The Manual as Artifact: On Artists’ Manuals and Craftsmen’s Handbooks’)